Evaluating the Impact of Smart City Initiatives - The Torino Living Lab Experience

Adriano Tanda, Alberto De Marco, Marta Rosso

2017

Abstract

Launched in January 2016 by the city of Turin, the Torino Living Lab initiative has been designed with the goal of fostering innovation and entrepreneurship and include the citizens in the Smart City innovation process. Aimed to private organizations and startups, the initiative identified the most promising Smart City technologies, systems, and applications, and gave them an opportunity to be tested in a real-life environment. This paper presents a formal methodology for impact assessment and measurement of success of the Torino Living Lab initiative. A procedure of ex-ante and ex-post measure is established upon review of research literature on Living Lab approaches. 16 performance indicators are selected and adapted to the characteristics of the initiative. Finally, some key takeaways resulting from the preliminary investigation are presented.

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Tanda A., De Marco A. and Rosso M. (2017). Evaluating the Impact of Smart City Initiatives - The Torino Living Lab Experience . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 281-286. DOI: 10.5220/0006346902810286


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@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Adriano Tanda and Alberto De Marco and Marta Rosso},
title={Evaluating the Impact of Smart City Initiatives - The Torino Living Lab Experience},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={281-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006346902810286},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Evaluating the Impact of Smart City Initiatives - The Torino Living Lab Experience
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Tanda A.
AU - De Marco A.
AU - Rosso M.
PY - 2017
SP - 281
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0006346902810286